Re: [Chicken-users] an ode to Spiffy

[Peter Busser]

> > A few things are missing  (for
> >instance form validation) but I can implement it in minutes with a nice
> >macro in a completely interactive way. Plus, I like SXML at least as
> >much as I hate HTML :) I think I will write a small tutorial about how
> >to use Spiffy for writing simple Web interfaces, which is the thing I
> >am interested in, since I want to use Scheme to do fast prototyping of
> >Web applications. Scheme is *extremely* suitable for this job, it sad
> >that most people don't realize that because of Scheme general attitude
> >to discourage users making things harder than needed (Chicken is maybe
> >an exception to this general rule, since Felix clearly shows some
> >concerns for usability and practicality).
>
> I'm sure you've read what Paul Graham has to say after using Lisp
> (almost as nice as Scheme :-) for web applications in ViaWeb?

BTW, while talking about SXML, has anyone looked at getting LAML to work on 
Chicken? (http://www.cs.auc.dk/~normark/laml/)

It contains also some papers about SXML and XML transformation in Scheme.

Groetjes,
Peter.